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The 43Rd Parliament: Traits and Trends Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services RESEARCH PAPER, 2013–14 2 October 2013 The 43rd Parliament: traits and trends Martin Lumb Politics and Public Administration Section Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Composition of the 43rd Parliament ......................................................................................................... 1 Gender ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 Ethnic background ................................................................................................................................... 2 Age ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Qualifications ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Occupational background ........................................................................................................................ 6 Movement between parliaments ............................................................................................................ 8 Length of service ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Comparisons with other countries ........................................................................................................ 11 Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................. 12 ISSN 1834-9854 The 43rd Parliament: traits and trends Introduction In recent years, academics and media commentators have documented the rise of a professional political class and the apparent shrinking gene pool in parliament, where members of Parliament often have ‘more in common with each other than with many of their constituents’.1 This Research Paper examines the biographical details of the senators and members of the 43rd Parliament, and draws on the statistical tables featured in the 32nd edition of the Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia.2 The paper focuses on the age, qualifications, previous employment and length of parliamentary service, and compares these characteristics with previous parliaments. A similar examination of the 41st Parliament was published in 2006.3 Composition of the 43rd Parliament The 21 August 2010 election saw 29 new members elected to the House of Representatives, together with the return of three Coalition members who did not retain their seats at the 2007 election, Warren Entsch (LIB, Leichhardt, Qld), Teresa Gambaro (LIB, Brisbane, Qld) and Ross Vasta (LIB, Bonner, Qld). This new component constituted approximately 20 per cent of the chamber. This compares with 39 new House of Representatives members at the 2007 election (26 per cent of the chamber). Of the 32 members who left the House at the 2010 election, 20 retired and 12 were defeated. Of the 40 senators up for re-election in 2010, all but 12 were re-elected. Six did not contest the election and six were defeated. The 12 new senators, including David Fawcett (LIB, SA) the former Member for Wakefield from 2004 to 2007, equated to approximately 16 per cent of the chamber, compared with 14 new Senators (18 per cent) after the 2007 election. The statistics and tables in this paper are based on data for the 43rd Parliament as at 1 July 2011 when the new senators commenced their term. Party representation for the two chambers is detailed in Table 1 below. During the course of the Parliament, there have been seven casual vacancies in the Senate, but no House of Representatives by-elections. Although party numbers remained the same in the Senate from 1 July 2011, some variations occurred in the House of Representatives. Bob Katter (Kennedy, Qld) announced the launch of his own party, and was formally listed as Katter’s Australian Party from 27 September 2011. Peter Slipper (Fisher, Qld) resigned from the Liberal Party and became an independent on 24 November 2011. Craig Thomson (Dobell, NSW) resigned from the Australian Labor Party and became an independent on 29 April 2012. Tony Crook (O’Connor, WA) sat as an independent until 8 May 2012, and subsequently sat with The Nationals, but did not attend joint Coalition meetings. 1. L Dodson, ‘The new and the restless’, Australian Financial Review, 14 August 2010, p. 25. 2. Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2011. 3. S Miskin and M Lumb, The 41st Parliament: middle-aged, well-educated and (mostly) male, Research note, 24, 2005– 06, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2006, accessed 1 August 2013. 1 The 43rd Parliament: traits and trends Table 1. Party representation in the 43rd Parliament House of Representatives Party Pre-election Post-election Australian Labor Party 83 72 Liberal Party of Australia 54 60 The Nationals/Country Liberal Party 9 12 Coalition 63 72 The Nationals (WA) – 1 Australian Greens – 1 Independent 4 4 Total 150 150 Senate Party before July 2011 after July 2011 Australian Labor Party 32 31 Liberal Party of Australia 32 28 The Nationals/Country Liberal Party 5 6 Coalition 37 34 Australian Greens 5 9 Family First 1 – Democratic Labour Party – 1 Independent 1 1 Total 76 76 Gender Following the 2010 election, the number of women in Parliament declined slightly from 68 to 67, approximately 30 per cent of the Parliament.4 The number of women in the House of Representatives declined from 41 (27 per cent) to 37 (25 per cent). When the newly-elected Senators commenced on 1 July 2011, the number of women in the Senate rose from 27 (35 per cent) to 30 (38 per cent). This higher proportion of women in the upper house is mirrored in Australian state parliaments. In the five states with upper houses, four (NSW, WA, SA and Tas) currently have a higher proportion of women in the upper house than the lower house, Victoria the only exception.5 Ethnic background Although detailed research on the ethnic background of the Parliament is limited, some indications can be drawn from Parliamentary Handbook statistics on the number of overseas born MPs. Nearly 4. For detailed statistics and information on the representation of women in Australian parliaments, see Dr J McCann and J Wilson, Representation of women in Australian parliaments, Background note, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 7 March 2012, accessed 1 August 2013. 5. See Composition of Australian Parliaments by Party and Gender, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2013, accessed 1 August 2013. 2 The 43rd Parliament: traits and trends half of the members of the first Parliament (49 per cent) were born overseas, predominantly the United Kingdom. In the 43rd Parliament only 12 per cent were born overseas. Of the 29 senators and members born overseas, 13 were born in the United Kingdom; four in New Zealand; and one each from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Nigeria and South Africa.6 Place of birth, of course, does not necessarily reflect ethnic background. Additional research indicates that at least 13 per cent of the 43rd Parliament were migrants from a non-English speaking background or children of migrants from a non-English speaking background.7 Ken Wyatt (LIB, Hasluck, WA), elected in 2010, became the first Indigenous member of the House of Representatives. Age Parliament remains the domain of the middle-aged: the number of members in the 40–59 age bracket in the 43rd Parliament was 159, with only 26 (11.5 per cent) younger than 40, and 41 (18.1 per cent) aged 60 or older. The youngest parliamentarian in the 43rd Parliament was Wyatt Roy (LIB, Longman, Qld), also the youngest ever elected to Parliament—he was 20 when elected in 2010. The oldest member of the 43rd Parliament was Alby Schultz (LIB, Hume, NSW), 71 when re-elected in 2010. Mr Schultz did not contest the 2013 election. Figure 1. Total MPs in each age bracket 20 16 12 8 Per cent Per 4 0 Under 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 and 30 over The average age was 51, slightly older than the previous parliament (50.1), but comparable with historical statistics. Since Federation, the average age of senators and members in any one Parliament has ranged between 47 and 52, fluctuating from 48.1 in 1901 to 51.8 in 1950 and down 6. For details, see ‘Overseas born’ in Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, op. cit. 7. This figure is based on information obtained from published biographical information and first speeches in Parliament. 3 The 43rd Parliament: traits and trends to 47.5 in 1978.8 The difference between the two chambers in the 43rd Parliament was marginal: the average age of those in the Senate was 51.7 while the average age of those in the House was 50.6. Figure 2 illustrates the similarity in age distribution across both chambers, except for a peak in the 50–54 age bracket in the Senate not seen in the House. Figure 2. Age of MPs (percentage), by chamber House of Representatives Senate 25 20 15 10 Per cent Per 5 0 Under 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 and 30 over Figure 3 shows that the largest difference between the parties occurs in the over 65 age bracket. The Coalition
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